I have a guest.(pictures added)

I think I'd try calling a local vet and see if they would scan her for a chip.  The thing that makes be a bit nervous about letting her go to a local pound is that because of budget cuts, a lot of them have reduced the length of time they'll keep dogs before euthing them.

Joyce

 ^ Yeah when we found the Bichon we went to the e-vet and they scanned him for free.  No chip (we scanned his whole body!!).

 Ok the dog warden wont come get her. I am 50ft over the freaking county line. So I told him I would bring her over the county line to him and he said he couldnt do that either. And the county Im supposedly supposed to live in does not have a dog pound anymore.

I have looked in the paper but no GP reported lost yet and have also put a found ad in there also.  My friend that picked her up works at a vet office and she had taken her there to get her scanned but no chip.

Gina there is no rest stops on the parkway here. Lots of farms around though and my friend said she went to houses and asked about the dog but noone claimed her or knew who she belonged to but had seen her on the parkway all day long and did nothing to help the dog.

Yep she has a pink collar with brown pokadots on it and was dragging a leash. So hopefully someone out there is looking for her. She's very sweet but scared. She doesnt seem to mind the other dogs but she sure doesnt like cats from what I have seen of her reactions today when Dewey walked by her. 

I would keep her in hopes of finding her owners but one foster is my limit. Hopefully the breed rescue will come through. I will keep an eye out for a missing GP though and post flyers and contact all the vets around here. I dont want to just hand her over to someone and still not try to find her owners. She seems well taken care of and I know dogs can get out and run away from home!

rwbeagles

Keeping them current is super important...the microchip too...that only helps if the info on file...is current.

You aren't kidding!  A few years ago, a friend of mine found a terrified dog cowering on the side of a busy road.  She stopped and picked him up, took him to the vet she used to work for, and had him scanned for a chip, since he also had no tags.  He was chipped, but when they called the first phone number listed, there was no answer, and no voicemail to leave a message.  They called the second number listed, and the person there said the owner's name listed with the microchip company was her sister in law, but that she had never owned a dog of that description.  So who knows.  Of course, my friend's theory was that it WAS the right owner, but that they had dumped the dog.

kle1986

I would keep her in hopes of finding her owners but one foster is my limit. Hopefully the breed rescue will come through. I will keep an eye out for a missing GP though and post flyers and contact all the vets around here. I dont want to just hand her over to someone and still not try to find her owners. She seems well taken care of and I know dogs can get out and run away from home!

Yeah for sure. I would imagine (hope?) that the GP rescue would be able to take over the owner search for you. If you had the ability to keep the dog and keep looking for its owners that would be one thing, but it sounds like you need somewhere else for the dog to stay. Not necessarily rehoming yet (maybe that's what people are concerned about?) but just someone to get the dog out of your house while everyone keeps looking for its people.

If the dog warden won't take her and you can't keep her at your house (understandable), what else can you do? That someone is probably looking for her doesn't make it any easier to cram a GP into an already-full house!

Since it's working out to be kind of a human interest story, would one of the TV stations be willing to run a story on her?  A lot of times, the same network in other cities will pick the story up and run it too

Joyce

 I would so keep her here if Holly wasnt here. But she needs me to work with her on a few things and the GP definetly needs some one on one time or her owners back. Right now the GP feels more comfy in the pen out back than in the house or dog room. And I feel bad for leaving her out there and just waiting for me to break away from my daily chores, Samantha, my own dogs, Holly, to get her some attention. I just cant leave her out there all sad and lonely waiting for the 5 mintues of attention I can give her now and then. That's not fair to her. Samantha is helping me though with giving her some lovings. 

I was outside working with Holly on the leash and I look up to see Samantha climb into the pen and sit with the GP and pet her and talk to her. How sweet was that?

I contacted the rescue. I got voicemail so I left a message. Hopefully someone calls soon.

kle1986

I contacted the rescue. I got voicemail so I left a message. Hopefully someone calls soon.

Keep calling if you don't get a call back and stress that this is a GP and that you cannot keep her!!  Sometimes, rescues are so short of foster homes, if they feel a dog is safe, they don't always respond as quickly as you would like.

Joyce has a great idea to call the TV and see if they will do a human interest story but beware since you don't want to let her go to someone who may want to make a brood bitch out of her.  Did the Vet your friend took her to see if she had been spayed (look for a scar)?  Poor dog, you just wonder how in the world she ended up on the freeway so far from anywhere. 

I hope rescue can help you out.

Ok, I know you're good with dogs, but I'd be really leery of letting Samantha play with an unfamiliar dog when you're not right there. You never know.

Dont worry.  I made Samantha get out and told her she couldnt be going in there without me. She's so used to climbing the fence when our dogs are in it she just thought it was ok to do it with this dog.

JackieG

Keep calling if you don't get a call back and stress that this is a GP and that you cannot keep her!! 

While stressing is important - looking at this from a rescue point of view: repeat phone calls are annoying. And frustrating. If there's nothing I can do today - there's nothing I'll be able to do tomorrow. Most of your breed rescue groups are ALL volunteers...

I would try several different rescue groups - even try out of your state. Many rescue groups have foster homes out of state (I worked with a rescue in Texas, that had a foster home right in Tampa).

I know there's a great GP rescue in FL somewhere, maybe GA. I could try and find their info for you too - you may be able to do a transport train to place her if no owner shows up.

Did you see these two? 

http://lexington.craigslist.org/laf/1247200090.html

http://lexington.craigslist.org/laf/1199397361.html

ooh ooh! great finds! I hope she is one of these!!

 I emailed those people just now. So hopefully a response soon! They live and hour and half away though so I dont know if this girl would be theirs.

I just showed this to my colleague who is a Pyr person, she has always owned Pyrs and other LGDs.  She said she can't have another dog right now but she knows someone in Arkansas who has been looking to rescue a Pyr and might even be willing to make a drive.  So if you absolutely cannot find the owner and they've had enough chance to find you, she said to let us know if the dog needs to be re-homed.